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Larger projects tend to have more dependencies too, so why not rail against large projects?

• regularfry 11y ago
  Because there will be fewer of them.
  • grandalf 11y ago
    Fewer packages? Who is to determine the optimal number of packages? Not sure how that benefits anyone. I hesitate to accuse you of trolling but your argument does not seem all that coherent.
    • regularfry 11y ago
      It's pretty simple: the more dependencies there are, the more upstream authors you have to trust.
      • grandalf 11y ago
        That assumes a lot. My code may utilize one dependency that itself utilizes a few dozen useless ones. Whereas someone else may carefully choose 20 dependencies, none of which include any dependencies. The issue is measuring the trustworthiness of a dependency, and recursively doing that operation throughout the dependency graph. Simply focusing on the number of dependencies or the size of a dependency is silly.